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The Namibian Diary….

Day 20: Today was another border crossing into Namibia so basically a long drive day…. The first part of the drive was in Botswana and provided some interesting viewing – there were donkeys lining the roads. A few breaks along the way and we arrived in the late afternoon at Rainbow Lodge Campsite. This campsite was situated on the banks of the Kavango River? Tents were set up well away from this though as signs alerted us to:….

The Botswana Diary …

Day 15: Waking at 5.30am, we jumped on a safari 4×4 and drove into Chobe National Park. The game drive however had started well before we entered the gates. Just as the sun was coming up we were lucky to see some beautiful elephants on the side of the main road. By 6am we had entered the gates and spent the next 3.5 hours in hope of seeing more cats. However it wasn’t to be. Not that we are complaining as there were plenty of hippos in Chobe River, so many impala and warthog, banded mongoose, chapma baboons, ground squirrels, giraffe, crocodiles, buffalo and plenty of different bird species. At this point everyone was probably too spoilt because although this is a huge amount of wildlife in one morning, we had really hoped to see Lions or Leopards (N.B there are no rhinos in Chobe NP).